The City of the Living by Wallace Stegner - 1956

Hammond, Hammond & Co, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. First Edition. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout with slight stains and markings to some pages. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition . Blue Boards. Very Good + Book/Very Good DJ. 206 Pp. Green Boards Stamped In Yellow. Stated First Printing 1956. One Of 4000 Copies. Short Stories. Book Lightly Rubbed At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Tips, 1/8" Tear At Bottom Of Front Spine Fold, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. Dj Lightly Worn, 1/4" V-Chip At Top Of Rear Panel, Very Small Losses At Corners With Internal Repairs, No Other Chips, Small Clear Tape Reinforcement At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Top And Bottom Of Flap Folds.

Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 205pp. Octavo. [21cm] Sea-green paper over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the spine. No dust jacket. Light bumping to extremities; subtle sunning to backstrip and edges of rear board; minor scrape to front board. "A sheaf of short stories, eight in all, are undercut by the realities of poverty, death, and acceptance of the immutable facts which only experience can teach, a moment of sudden recognition. With the exception of the sardonic Field Guide to Western Birds, in which a retired literary agent applies his agile powers of observation to his neighbors- collected at a cocktail party- in a curd commentary, the others are more straightforward in their unpleasant truths.' - Kirkus (October 23, 1956).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good-. 1956. Hardcover. 206 pages, blue paper covered boards, yellow printing to the spine. the spine is sunned, covers edges rubbed. The contents are bright and complete. About Very Good in an edge chipped dust jacket. .

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST IN DJ. BOOKPLATE FROM STANFORD.

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition/DJ Good. There is some foxing to the paste downs and fly pages. The pages are unmarked and clean. The binding is sturdy. There is a previous owner's name written on the the first title page. The dust jacket has some closed tears.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing from July, 1956, printed for Houghton Mifflin by The Riverside Press. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Light teal paper covers, a bit sunned, bumping to spine head and foot, very light wear to edges. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, a short, closed tear at rear panel bottom, chipping to spine head and foot, protected by a plastic coat, not being price-clipped, and with a fine black-and-white photograph of the author at rear panel. Eight short stories, including the frequently anthologized "The Blue Winged Teal" and "Field Guide to the Western Birds." 206 pp. and dust jacket illustration by Edward Sweet.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the… Read More

Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 205pp. Octavo. [21cm] Gray paper over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bevelled fore edge with minor toning to extremities of pages. Some toning to extremities of boards. Tail of spine very slightly bumped but not scuffed. Dust jacket is lightly faded and price clipped. Modern inscription on the front paste down.

boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); teal colored paper-covered boards, titled in yellow on the spine; dustjacket drawing by Edward Sweet; 206pp. Spine ends are pushed with tiny tear to the crown; about Near Fine. The dustjacket is price-clipped with nicks and short tears, mostly to the spine ends; about Near Fine. "Man they think I'm rat poison, " says Johnny Bane about his girl friends family. "They got this old Mexican jive about keeping chics at home. But he plans to take the girl out anyway: "Down to the beach, man. She look real mean down there on the sand gettin the eyball from all the cats. Reety!" From hep-cat Johnny Bane, in Pop Goes the Alley Cat," to sixty year old literary agent Joseph Allston in A Field Guide to Western Birds, Wallace Stegner's characters are brilliantly alive and vivid..."(from the dustjacket).

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with jacket; Stated First Printing;Light green paper boards with yellow titles shows some fading;jacket has chips to spine with quarter inch loss;some foxing and discoloration to end pages; small booksellers label affixed to FEP; previous owners name in ink on FEP.